Being an Extra Actor in an Escape Game

"what!"

Jiang Shuangmei couldn't help but screamed, her back felt cold, and she took a few steps back.

Fei and Shen Yunju subconsciously stopped and looked at her strangely.

Jiang Shuangmei swallowed, and said in a trembling voice, "Blood...there is blood on the ground."

So the other two taskers also subconsciously looked down, Shen Yunju couldn't help frowning, and Fei raised his feet instinctively.They were a little overwhelmed.

It was a thin layer of blood that almost blended with the dark color of the floor.If it wasn't for the sticky feeling sticking to the soles of their feet, then they probably wouldn't notice anything strange on the ground until they left this floor.

They might think that this floor is so quiet, and this quietness itself is the strangeness of this floor.

But now they found this layer of blood.The three taskers looked at each other, observing the blood on the ground, trying to find the source and scope.However, they found that the bloodstains seemed to have spread all over the floor.

But no corpses.

The dead silence and darkness on the 21st floor were like thick fog, burying them layer by layer, giving Jiang Shuangmei an ominous premonition.For a moment, she was barely aware of her own breathing.

She subconsciously coughed to stop herself from being so panicked.

She turned around pretending to be calm, and said to Fei and Shen Yunju behind her, "Apart from the blood on the ground, there seems to be no clues on this floor."

At this moment, Shen Yunju suddenly looked at the glass on the floor near the window.

Then, he muttered to himself: "Shadow..."

The three taskers almost all froze, and no one dared to look up at the ceiling.They suddenly realized that the dark color on the wall was not what it was originally.

It was also smeared out by almost coagulated blood.Maybe it just flowed down at first, but it also stuck to the wall.

They saw fingers, soles of feet, pieces of minced meat, and pairs of dead, bloodshot eyes on the shards of glass, hidden in the dark, where the light never shined.the top of their heads.

In the live broadcast room, the camera showed the piece of broken glass.The audience wailed and howled, begging Xu Bei not to adjust the camera to the past.

Above the heads of the group of taskers was a piece of broken corpses.The corpses had been cut into pieces and glued to the ceiling, almost dried out now.

Perhaps it was because the cutting was detailed enough that the taskers didn't realize at first glance that the ceiling above their heads was a corpse.

It's as if these flesh and blood are the paint and wallpaper painted on the ceiling of this floor.

...Actually, Xu Beijin couldn't take it anymore.

He felt nauseous for a while, and silently fixed the camera, but don't take pictures of that terrible scene.

As for the three poor taskers who were in the same room with such a scene, they were stunned at the moment, and they dared not move their necks, for fear of seeing something that would make them sleepless at night.

Fei muttered to herself, "What happened here?"

Why are there so many corpses, almost covering the ceiling of this floor?Who did it?Why do you want to do this?Is this person, or this group of people...are they still in this building?

Fei thought about it, but she couldn't come up with an answer.

Subsequently, the three taskers left the 21st floor.When they got back into the elevator, they almost all breathed a sigh of relief, even though Shen Yunju's zombie-like face did not show much psychological fluctuation.

Jiang Shuangmei didn't want to talk, she looked at the two buttons on the first floor and the thirteenth floor quietly, and asked, "Which one should we choose?"

Fei said weakly: "Then... Thirteen?"

Jiang Shuangmei nodded, and Shen Yunju had no objection.Their experience on the 21st floor seemed to make them aware of the danger in this building, but it also made them feel a very unreal feeling.

After pressing the thirteenth floor, the elevator slowly moved upwards.

Fei took a deep breath, looked at the gap between the elevator doors in front of her, and said to herself, "This is the most nightmare-like nightmare I've ever seen..."

In the usual nightmares, even though they were called "nightmare", they were completely different from real dreams.It was almost another ordinary world, not a grotesque dream.

Many questers believe that the so-called "nightmare" is nothing more than a copy in the game, and of course it obeys the rules of the real world. Otherwise, how would they solve puzzles and explore in the irregular dreamland?

They believe that the various scenes and stories in the nightmare are actually reproducing the real experiences of the residents of the narrow buildings. Even if there are some far-fetched elements, they are still in line with the rules.

But... this nightmare?

Cut up human corpses and paste them on the ceiling?

Does this make any sense?

Fei couldn't help wondering whether the owner of this nightmare was a lunatic, or had encountered a lunatic, so such a terrifying scene reappeared in the nightmare.

Even the residents of the narrow building are crazy and weird, but just like the scene in this nightmare, the chaotic elevator, the scene where the death is a corpse on the first floor...

Fei couldn't help feeling a bit of chills.

What happened to the owner of this nightmare?

And... Does this scene have anything to do with the burning scene outside this building?

Fei doubts there will be, but, she hopes not.

In the midst of this wild thinking, the speed of the elevator slowed down, as if it was about to stop.

Fei was taken aback for a moment, and looked at Jiang Shuangmei hesitantly.The elevator didn't run for a few seconds, and if I had to say it, it was only one or two floors away.

The elevator finally stopped, but at this moment, Fei suddenly discovered that a strange red liquid had seeped in from the crack of the elevator door.

……what?

Fei suddenly yelled, "Don't open the door!"

But it was too late.

The elevator doors open automatically.

A mighty sea of ​​blood poured in from the world outside the door in an instant, splashing the heads and faces of the three mission workers in the elevator.The strong smell of blood overwhelmed their sense of smell at that moment, making them feel that the whole world seemed to be composed of blood, blood, and flesh.

At that moment, Fei thought that she might be in the shadow of the elevator door for the rest of her life.

It turns out that the elevator door can also be said to be the door to the new world.

The audience also exclaimed.

Almost one-third of the screen of the live broadcast room has been covered by the sudden sea of ​​blood.

"Damn, if I were playing this game... I'd probably be dying [bye]"

"I was covered in blood. Presumably this group of taskers should have a common language with the ceiling just now."

"...Qiaoqiu, just be yourself."

Soon, the blood flooded most of the No. [-] elevator, and it was still rising.The three missionaries struggled, throbbing in blood, and after a while, they finally closed the elevator door, and the speed of blood flow in suddenly slowed down.

By this time, the blood had already flooded to their necks.

Jiang Shuangmei froze, feeling uncomfortable all over.Blood from an unknown source wet their clothes, and the cold and sticky feeling made her imagine poisonous snakes sliding on her skin.

Now, only one head of the three of them is still exposed in the air.

The expressions of the three of them were all very stiff.

Jiang Shuangmei's tone was blunt: "This No. [-] elevator, why are the floors it goes to so..."

Fei shut her mouth, not wanting to speak.

She felt that as soon as she spoke, the blood on her face flowed into her mouth.

Shen Yunju suddenly said: "Could it be possible that the blood on the 21st floor seeped down from this floor as well?"

Jiang Shuangmei opened her mouth, and when she heard the man's thoughts in a stiff voice, she couldn't help but feel a chill down her spine.She could only whisper, "Maybe...it's possible."

But if this is the case, what's the use of putting those corpses on the 21st floor there?

...just for decoration?

Jiang Shuangmei felt a little funny, but she couldn't laugh.

After another moment, she said, "Where are we going now? The... blood in the elevator must be shed."

After the three taskers looked at each other for a while, Fei said, "Let's go to the 21st floor."

I don't know where the button on the first floor will take them, so it's better to go to the 21st floor where they are more familiar.Although the place is disgusting, it doesn't seem to be dangerous.

Jiang Shuangmei nodded, looked at the elevator control panel that had been flooded with blood, and frowned in disgust for a while.She fumbled with her hand, confirmed the button on the 21st floor, which is the 25th floor, according to her memory, and then pressed it.

The elevator ran for a few seconds, then stopped, and the door opened automatically.

The blood inside the elevator flowed out almost instantly, and then spread to the entire floor.

Seeing this scene, Jiang Shuangmei couldn't help trembling suddenly, she said: "Do you feel..."

"Don't say it." Fei bit her lip, her face was pale, she looked at this floor as if she had seen a ghost, her voice seemed to be frozen, and she expressed the despair of dying, "Don't say..."

Shen Yunju looked at the two taskers with dull eyes.

He knows what they mean.

Look—the blood on the floor of the 21st floor, does it seem that they were picked up from the upstairs by the elevator and then splashed here?

This is unreasonable, very inconsistent.They have already been to the 21st floor, and have seen the blood on the floor of this floor.But now they came back from upstairs and poured blood on this floor.

This kind of behavior itself is like they created the blood on this layer of ground.

This scene, like a Mobius ring, made the three taskers feel a particularly subtle feeling in their hearts, and it was not just fear.

The elevator doors closed automatically, which seemed to isolate their fear to some extent.

Jiang Shuangmei suddenly looked at Fei: "What did you just say?"

Fei asked blankly: "What...?" She hesitated for a moment, "The most nightmare...nightmare?...Nightmare?"

She seemed to suddenly understand what Jiang Shuangmei meant, and looked at her in surprise.

Jiang Shuangmei seemed to be talking to herself, and said softly: "Maybe we also played a part of this nightmare to some extent."

"It's impossible!" Fei asked back, "How could the nightmare control our behavior..."

She stopped suddenly.

Jiang Shuangmei said: "You found out." She paused, "Our actions all rely on elevators and stairs. In other words, this is sufficiently controllable."

Fei frowned, and finally she said: "But it's meaningless. Even if our actions will change the scene of the nightmare, what does it matter? We just want to investigate the truth of this nightmare."

Jiang Shuangmei wanted to say something else.

But Shen Yunju interrupted her: "If the blood on the ground on the 21st floor was really caused by our actions..." He paused, because the faces of the other two taskers suddenly turned pale, but he Or continue, "Shouldn't the factor of time be considered first?"

Both Jiang Shuangmei and Fei were startled.

Later, Jiang Shuangmei asked inexplicably: "However, we went to the 21st floor first, and at that time we saw the blood on the ground; and then we brought the blood from the upper layer down to the 21st floor...meaning we traveled to the past? "

Shen Yunju shook his head, indicating that he didn't know, but just thought of a possibility.

Fei sighed and said, "Don't think too much about it. Maybe the blood on the ground on the 21st floor has nothing to do with us?"

The other two couldn't help but nodded.

Afterwards, they all looked at the control panel of the No. [-] elevator.Jiang Shuangmei finally pressed that one, she was thinking about it, one level.

The three taskers in the No. 21 elevator stopped discussing the blood on the ground on the [-]st floor, but the discussion in the live broadcast room was still lively.

In any case, the scene of the blood in the elevator flowing to the ground on the 21st floor subtly fits the experience of the previous taskers on the 21st floor, which immediately created an illusion:

Could it be that they chose to pour blood on the 21st floor, so that there was a thin layer of blood on the ground of this floor?

The audience held different points of view and debated fiercely.

"No! Yes! Yes! They have already seen that layer of blood on the 21st floor before, and that layer of blood was coagulated at that time! It was coagulated!!"

"That's right! There is no indication that there are elements related to time and cause and effect in this nightmare?"

"Although, did you find out that the scene where the three people in the No. 31 elevator left the little girl there on the [-]st floor, and the scene where the little girl was told by her mother to let her stay there, are actually subtly similar... ..."

"And it happened to be the female missionary, the sorceress, who told the little girl to hide under the desk if she was afraid."

"!!! Don't scare me!!"

"I think it's not so much time, causal contradictions, or the taskers who caused some scenes of this nightmare, but rather, the taskers are reproducing some of the things that happened in this nightmare?"

"The reasoning master is right! The sorceress can't really be the mother of this little girl."

"...Maybe it's true..."

"Fuck, it's impossible."

"Don't make wild guesses. Now there are only two things that are a bit subtle. At other times, the taskers are exploring in this nightmare scene normally."

"...There are already two things... In other words, is it possible that every elevator will correspond to this very subtle thing... some kind of déjà vu, and so on. Just like the reasoning master said same as what happened before.”

"But what's the point of this nightmare?"

"...it just doesn't make sense."

The audience debated a lot, and it always felt like a coincidence and not a coincidence.

In the end, it was the reasoning boss who made the final decision: "Let's take a look and wait until more floors that the elevators can go to come out. It's a pity that Beibei has something to do at this time, otherwise we can analyze it with us."

Yes, at this moment Xu Beijin is busy with other situations.

After Lingo and Wu Jian came to the 16th floor, they began to talk to the actors and collect information.But those who do these things are basically ignorant.

Although Wu Jian always worried Fei, he could still do this kind of basic information collection work, and he did it very well. Otherwise, he might not be able to gain a foothold in the higher floors of the narrow building.

After about a few minutes, he ran back and reported to Ringo very consciously.

At this moment, Lingo had silently come to Xu Beijin's side, without saying a word or doing anything, just sitting there quietly, occasionally looking at Xu Beijin.

Xu Beijin felt uncomfortable being watched by him, and he always felt that the days when he and Lin Po lived in the same room for more than ten days in a row, reading their own books, eating their own snacks, and drinking their own drinks, are gone forever. up.

Xu Bei thought to himself that once the original pure friendship is mixed with special feelings, it seems that it will undergo a qualitative change.

What's more annoying, however, is that Ringo has no self-awareness about this.

Moreover, because Lingo stayed here all the time, Xu Beijin couldn't communicate with the audience in the live broadcast room at all, and he couldn't express any opinions when he saw the special encounter of the three missionaries on the 21st floor.

...How does it feel like I have returned to the scene of Ringo sitting on the small bench in front of his bookstore in the first two nightmares.Xu Beijin secretly slandered.

The arrival of Wu Jian broke the silence between them and made Xu Beijin slightly relieved.

However, Lin Po gave Wu Jian a slightly displeased glance, but thinking of letting Xu Beijin get out of this nightmare as soon as possible, Lin Po held back again.

Wu Jian repeated what he had heard: "There are more than a dozen people gathered here. They all stayed here to work when the accident happened in this office building. Then, in order to find food and other reasons, they gathered on the 16th floor... ..."

Having said that, Ringo asked, "Some other reasons?"

Wu Jian said: "What they said was rather vague. I guess they may have... lost their way? They said that there is something wrong with the elevator or something. You can ask other taskers at that time."

Ringo nodded.

Wu Jian continued: "They didn't know exactly what happened before. It was probably because there was a sudden bang outside, as if something had exploded, and then the glass of the building exploded. .

"Several employees suffered concussions from the shock wave, so their retelling of the scene was not very clear."

When it comes to concussion, Lingo subconsciously glanced at Xu Bei.

Xu Beijin: "..."

Yes, he also had a concussion.Although it's just pretending.

Of course, he also knows that if he doesn't pretend, the mastermind will arrange for him to have a real concussion...

The life of the actor in the nightmare is so boring and uninteresting.

Wu Jian didn't notice the small exchange between Lin Po and Xu Beijin, and continued: "This group of people is trapped here, and they also know that the stairs below the ninth floor have been blocked, and they dare not sit down." elevator……"

Having said that, Wu Jian swallowed.He whispered, "Boss, let me tell you, I heard a breaking news about the elevator."

Ringo raised his eyebrows.

Wu Jian said: "It is said that the previous explosion did not know what it was, and it impacted the elevator line, causing the operation of the elevator to become completely random. That's what they said."

Xu Bei said with all his heart that I knew it a long time ago.

But... wait.

Xu Beijin's expression suddenly changed slightly.

As if he could read his heart, Ringo immediately asked, "Completely random?"

"Yes." Wu Jian nodded again and again, "They said that the floors the elevator can go to are completely random and not fixed every time the button is pressed.

"No one knows which floor the elevator will go to. It's completely...a matter of luck."

Some details that Wu Jian did not mention were that when the group of employees trapped on the 16th floor heard that he had a companion to take the elevator, they all showed expressions of sympathy and fear.

The survivors among this group of employees used to instinctively use the elevator.People living in modern society are of course accustomed to relying on these industrial products.

But what they depend on hits them hard.

Of course, this news gave Wu Jian a heavy blow, but that was only because they, the taskers, also needed to solve this nightmare.

He wondered worriedly, if every time the elevator button was pressed, the actual floor corresponding to it was completely random, how would they be able to leave the building?All by luck?

And this news surprised the audience in the live broadcast room even more.

"Wait, completely random?"

"But the three people in the No. 21 elevator just now went back to the [-]st floor?!"

"Well...they didn't go to the stairwell to look at the floor sign. In fact, they couldn't be sure if it was the 21st floor..."

"...the blood on the ground..."

"No, no, I'm a little confused. Do you remember when they arrived at that floor just now, were there any broken limbs on the ceiling?"

"To be honest, I didn't pay attention. Because the blood flowing out caught my attention."

"And they are standing in the elevator, the camera can't actually see the ceiling outside..."

"Then... Then don't they, don't know which layer they put the blood water at all?"

"According to this, the sense of déjà vu is not valid, right? It's just a coincidence. The blood on the ground on the 21st floor couldn't have flowed out of the No. [-] elevator."

"I agree, it's impossible to press the button on the 25th floor for the first time and the second time, and you will arrive at the same floor, right?"

"...Why is it impossible?"

"It's up to you again, why can't the witch be the mother of that little girl?"

"I agree with that point of view. They inadvertently reproduced what happened in this building. But why there is such a recurrence, I can't think of the reason for the time being."

"Maybe this is a real nightmare that keeps repeating what happened in the past? And the tasker is also playing a part of the nightmare?"

"Although, this is still a game after all. How to solve this?"

"... Please, I just want to admire Bei Bei's handsome face, I don't want to think about it."

The audience was entangled, and the three taskers of the No. 31 elevator, after leaving the 29st floor where the little girl was, arrived at the [-]th floor where the elevator button was.

Among the four floor buttons that can be pressed in elevator No. 32, the floors corresponding to the seventh floor buttons are dangerous, and even inaccessible; the 31st and 24th floors corresponding to the [-]th and [-]nd floors are safe.

Therefore, whether the floor corresponding to the 29th floor is safe is an unknown.

The boy said impatiently: "The mastermind should be more merciful to the taskers at the bottom of the narrow building, right?"

The man in the suit sneered, "Who knows?"

The elevator door opened.

A group of lunatics covered in blood flew towards them.

"Damn it!" the boy yelled, "Why is it this floor again!"